Distraught father of little girl, 6, killed in freak badminton accident shares devastating detail about day she died – before finding heart-breaking final drawing in her prayer journal at home

The father of a six-year-old girl who died in a freak badminton accident has shared heartbreaking details of the day she died, including her harrowing final diary entries.

Lucy Morgan died on June 5, just days after suffering the traumatic brain injury during a family holiday in Maine.

Her pastor father, Jesse Morgan, had documented her struggle since she was airlifted to Maine Medical Center Portland.

Tragically, she slipped away soon afterwards, surrounded by her family, who gathered at her bedside to sing her favorite hymn.

Now the distraught father has revealed that he, his wife Bethany and their three other children were so overcome with grief that they were unable to return to their own home.

The father of Lucy Morgan, 6, who died in a freak badminton accident, has shared more heartbreaking details about the day she died, including her poignant final diary entries

Father Jesse Morgan revealed that he, his wife Bethany and their three other children were so overcome with grief that they could no longer return to their own home

“When we got home, we saw flowers lining our stairs and a refrigerator filled with food. But getting in was the hardest part,” he wrote on his blog.

“We sat on the sidewalk for a while, crying, until I finally got up the courage to open the door.

“We fell into a heap on the kitchen floor again and cried harder as a family than we ever had before.”

The deeply religious family has been comforted in their loss by their faith, and Morgan said his daughter asked her mother how she could be “saved” just weeks before her death.

“Despite my belief that she is still young and might not understand, and that she had the faith of a mustard seed, Bethany still couldn’t shake the fear and doubt,” he explained.

“It was then that we opened her backpack and found her prayer journal that Bethany had given her a month ago, on the day of her death.”

The pages contain affirmations of Lucy’s faith, photographs, and a heartbreaking final drawing that her sister Shiloh believes shows Mary and Martha weeping over the body of Lazarus.

In the Bible story, Lazarus of Bethany is resurrected by Jesus four days after his death.

But they took comfort in their faith and that of their daughter, as the final diary entries reveal. They believe this photo depicts the resurrection of Lazarus

Lucy had asked her mother for help in ‘rescuing’ weeks before her death

The young family was enjoying an idyllic lake vacation in Maine when the tragedy occurred

‘This last photo takes the cake. The significance of the fact that this is the very last thing she signed in the diary cannot be understated,” Morgan said. “It’s hard to put into words how deeply I feel about it.”

But he was unflinching in his honesty about the brutality of the situation as he described his wife’s anguish on the day Lucy died.

‘On June 4, the morning of the day Lucy was predicted to die, it was very difficult to distinguish the moans and screams I heard from Bethany at 3 a.m. from the moans and screams I heard on the morning of September 4, 2017 when Bethany gave birth to Lucy. ,’ He wrote.

“A mother’s pain in this situation is so incredibly unique, tough and, quite frankly, awe-inspiring to watch.”

He described how painful it was to explain the situation to Lucy’s three young siblings.

But also their attempts to find light in the darkness by doing some of her favorite things, including playing games together.

The family was enjoying an idyllic holiday when disaster struck, he explained on his blog.

“Bethany and I were relaxing in the back when we heard screaming,” he said.

Lucy was airlifted to Portland, where she went into cardiac arrest when surgeons removed part of her skull to relieve pressure on her brain.

The four children had enjoyed kayaking and outdoor activities for a week before the accident

‘A freak accident involving a racket that broke on a downward swing resulted in a sharp piece penetrating Lucy’s skull as she sat on the sidelines, causing catastrophic injury.’

Lucy immediately became unresponsive and was taken to hospital, where she later died.

Her funeral will take place Saturday at 11 a.m. ET and will be streamed live at www.greenpondbible.org.

a GoFundMe was founded to support the family.